"I'm begging you, stop!"
The Ice Empress screamed miserably, doing her utmost to unleash her oppressive aura.
Where was even a shred of her dignity as one of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North now?
Huo Yuhao snapped his fingers, signaling Tian Meng to stop.
He looked down at the Ice Empress and said flatly, "Let me remind you: you're not irreplaceable. We could walk away right now, wait a few decades until you're gone and I've grown stronger, then take the knife to your clansmen!"
Barely recovered from her terror of death, the Ice Empress said venomously, "You may have me under control for now, but if I release my full aura as a signal, my clansmen will come here immediately. Do you think you'll still make it out of the Far North?"
"Then go ahead and try!" Huo Yuhao said coldly. "Let's see whose lives are worth more-yours or ours!"
"Either release your spiritual origin right now, or we all die together right now."
Huo Yuhao was exceptionally forceful. Even before the Ice Empress's terrifying pressure, he showed not the slightest fear.
The Ice Empress's body trembled slightly. Then green light enveloped her true body, and a tiny emerald-green orb separated from it. The light in her body's eyes faded, leaving them dull.
That tiny emerald-green orb was the Ice Empress's spiritual origin.
Without her spiritual origin to control it, the Ice Empress's true body exuded an utterly terrifying, savage might.
The golden light beside Tian Meng wrapped around the Ice Empress's spiritual origin, returning with it to Huo Yuhao's body and entering his Sea of Consciousness.
The mighty Ice Empress, one of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North with nearly four hundred thousand years of cultivation, had actually submitted to Huo